Those police who unlocked gates are among the group of 100s who were charged..
Why no treason/i**********n charges? I have no idea.. it sure is to my eyes. must be a lawyer thing..
It seems some could still be charged with S******n in its various forms.. but that may have aged off.. sorta hard to find the specific articles I hoped for..
Any way the article is interesting but too long to post..
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/05/the-capitol-attack-treasonDuring Donald Trump’s presidency, the UC Davis law professor Carlton Larson spent a lot of time on the phone telling journalists: “It’s not treason.”
Trump’s behavior towards Russia: not treason. All the FBI investigations Trump labeled as treason: also not treason. Then came the 6 January attack on the Capitol by hundreds of Trump supporters. That was treason according to the founding fathers, Larson wrote in an op-ed the next day.
But in the three months since 6 January, however, there has been little public discussion of “treason” as the framework for understanding what happened, Larson said. “Everything was ‘Treason, treason, treason,’ when it wasn’t, and now you have an event that is closer to the original 18th-century definition of treason than anything that’s happened, and it’s almost silent. Nobody is using the term at all,” he said.
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